William Herbert Perry Faunce (January 15, 1859 – January 31, 1930) was an American
Baptist
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clergyman
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and
educator
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.
Biography
William Faunce was born at
Worcester
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,
. His father was clergyman
Daniel Faunce. He graduated in 1880 at
Brown University
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(where he then taught mathematics for a year), and at 1884 at
Newton Theological Seminary, and from 1884 to 1889 was pastor of the State Street Baptist Church of
Springfield
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,
. From 1889 to 1899 he was pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church of
New York City
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,
New York
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, in 1896-97 he lectured in the Divinity School of the
University of Chicago
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, and in 1898-99 he was a member of the board of resident preachers of
Harvard University
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. In 1899 he became
president of Brown University
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; during his administration the endowment of the university was largely increased. He was Lyman Beecher lecturer at
Yale University
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in 1907-08 and was prominent in the work of the
Religious Education Association
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. His writings include numerous contributions, chiefly to religious periodicals, and the volumes ''The Educational Ideal in the Ministry'' (1909) and ''What Does Christianity Mean?'' (1912).
Faunce died on January 31, 1930, in
Providence
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,
Rhode Island
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, at the age of 71. Later that year, Brown's student center was renamed Faunce House in his honor, at the request of
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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, who contributed $600,000 toward its renovation.
Works
* ''The Educational Ideal in the Ministry'' (1908)
* ''What Does Christianity Mean?'' (1912)
* ''The Social Aspects of Foreign Missions'' (1914)
* ''The New Horizon of State and Church'' (1918)
* ''Religion and War'' (1918)
* ''Facing Life'' (1928)
References
Attribution
Further reading
* William H. P. Faunce article, in Martha Mitchell's ''Encyclopedia Brunoniana''
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1859 births
1930 deaths
American educational theorists
American religious writers
Baptist ministers from the United States
Brown University alumni
Harvard University people
People from Worcester, Massachusetts
Clergy from New York City
Presidents of Brown University
Baptists from New York (state)
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